TY - BOOK ID - 91826007 TI - Art as an interface of law and justice : affirmation, disturbance, disruption PY - 2020 SN - 1509944346 1509944362 1509944354 PB - Oxford, UK ; [London, England] : Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Bloomsbury Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Law and art. KW - Justice. KW - Law & society KW - Injustice KW - Conduct of life KW - Law KW - Common good KW - Fairness KW - Art KW - Art and law KW - Collectors and collecting KW - Law and legislation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:91826007 AB - "This book looks at the way in which the 'call for justice' is portrayed through art and presents a wide range of texts from film to theatre to essays and novels to interrogate the law. The 'call for justice' may have its positive connotations, but throughout history most have caused annoyance. Art is very well suited to deal with such annoyance, or to provoke it. This study shows how art operates as an interface, here, between two spheres: the larger realm of justice and the more specific system of law. This interface has a double potential. It can make law and justice affirm or productively disturb one another. Approaching issues of injustice that are felt globally, eight chapters focus on original works of art not dealt with before, including Milo Rau's The Congo Tribunal, Elfriede Jelinek's Ulrike Maria Stuart, Valeria Luiselli's Tell Me How It Ends and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda. They demonstrate how through art's interface, impasses are addressed, new laws are made imaginable, the span of systems of laws is explored, and the differences in what people consider to be just are brought to light. The book considers the improvement of law and justice to be a global struggle and, whilst the issues dealt with are culture-specific, it argues that the logics introduced are applicable everywhere"-- ER -